Created attachment 13436 [details] add gitignore to cvs_excludes Howdy, First, thanks for the excellent rsync tool. It's been invaluable over the years! I was recently working on a project where I wanted to rsync a copy of a git repo, and exclude SCM files. I used rsync -C, but noticed that while .git was removed, .gitignore remained. I've written a small patch to also exclude .bzrignore, .hgignore, and .gitignore, so that bazaar, git and mercurial SCMs also have their ignore files, ignored (as they are practically useless without the other SCM files, e.g., for a tarball release). Before: austin@austin2:~/src/rsync$ rsync -CavPz /home/austin/src/foobar $(mktemp -d) sending incremental file list foobar/ foobar/.gitignore 6 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=3/5) foobar/README.md 63 100% 61.52kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#2, to-chk=2/5) foobar/setup-flash-drive.sh 8,119 100% 7.74MB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#3, to-chk=1/5) foobar/setup-kit.sh 613 100% 598.63kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#4, to-chk=0/5) sent 3,849 bytes received 96 bytes 7,890.00 bytes/sec total size is 8,801 speedup is 2.23 After: austin@austin2:~/src/rsync$ ./rsync -CavPz /home/austin/src/foobar $(mktemp -d) sending incremental file list foobar/ foobar/README.md 63 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=2/4) foobar/setup-flash-drive.sh 8,119 100% 7.74MB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#2, to-chk=1/4) foobar/setup-kit.sh 613 100% 598.63kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#3, to-chk=0/4) sent 3,778 bytes received 77 bytes 7,710.00 bytes/sec total size is 8,795 speedup is 2.28 Note: I searched bugzilla and found a few other bugs that reference .gitignore, but I believe none are the same: bug 5418/bug 10995: .gitignore is casually mentioned in a list of files in the rsync command, unrelated bug 6120: is about a .rsyncignore file (default --exclude-from location), roughly equivalent to .gitignore bug 9744: is about parsing git/svn/hg/bzr ignore lists and having rsync ignore THOSE files